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Trenton, FL 32693 Frost Dates

32693, near Trenton, FL: the frost window

Zone 9a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 254 days after the last spring frost.

Trenton sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Trenton's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

The actual range around Trenton's last frost

03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Trenton against the rest of the dataset

About 254 days separate Trenton's last and first frost, putting it 7,034 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,585 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 32693: local microclimates, on what one yard in Trenton can differ from the 32693 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Trenton's frost date answer different questions.